I describe my experience of running in the 2003 recall election as “a performance art piece rather than a campaign.” One thing that I concentrated on was the experience of campaigning itself (such as it was.) I realize that the focus in different in this campaign (I actually want to win) but I still think [...]
I have a guest post up at San Jose Inside. Thanks to Jack Van Zandt!
I am running for a fairly obscure elected position. In fact, a common reaction when I tell people that I’m running for the SCVWD Board is, “That’s elected?” What public attention the Board has received has come about from coverage in the Mercury. Which is why I find the situation described by this article from [...]
Yesterday evening, the Committee on Political Education of the South Bay Labor Council met at SCVWD headquarters to interview Directors Santos and Kwok and me. They will announce COPE’s endorsements in a few weeks. I, personally, would have benefited from more time for intensive reading, but there are many important local races to look at [...]
Finally, a top-level page! I’ve got much more work to do, of course, but at least it’s there.
Whew! Today was a long day. But the end result is that my papers are finally filed. The folks at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters are just terrific, patient and cheerful and very, very helpful. I didn’t take pictures this time, but I applauded after Liz Kniss took her oath, met several prospective [...]
I attended this morning’s special board meeting, where the board went through an unsorted list of issues to establish priorities for 2008. The experience was familiar, because of having watched previous meetings on the web. Several things strike me after 8 or 9 hours’ exposure to the current board. It is very collegial. I’ve seen [...]
Here we are at the brand-new dianafoss.com. I had started a blog over at blogger.com, but decided I’d rather have the room to expand on my own site. So. I have 27 signatures on my nomination papers. I’d like to get 30, just to be safe. I have to finish up my ballot statement and [...]
[Note: I posted this on 1 March in a previous blog incarnation] For this morning’s Saturday bike ride, I took the Guadalupe River trail, all the way from its beginning at Grant St. View Larger Map to the San José Airport, 11.6 miles round trip from my house. Leaving aside the questionable bike-friendliness of the [...]
[Note: I posted this on 29 February at a previous blog incarnation, before I decided to get my own domain.] I took out papers today for the District 2 seat of the Santa Clara Valley Water District Board, currently occupied by Joe Judge. The filing deadline is a week from today, 7 March 2008. In [...]